Kayla Sargent
MRC Free Speech America Staff Writer

Kayla Sargent joined MRC Free Speech America as a Staff Writer in August. She recently graduated from Liberty University with a degree in Government: Politics and Policy.

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Pornhub has long attempted to hide its exploitive content, but this content’s time online may be quickly coming to a close. Several prominent Republican senators have called for an investigation into PornHub following a recent New York Times…

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Although the presidential election was more than a month ago now, Facebook is continuing to crack down on what it has decided is misinformation about the election. A Facebook fact-checker marked an article that Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH)…

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A fact-checking website may not even be able to properly check the facts in its own articles when the facts don’t line up with its narrative. FactCheck.org, which  partners with Facebook to fact-check articles and social media posts, has not…

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Facebook has, once again, decided to step up its censorship game.

The social media platform has reportedly decided that it will remove what it deems to be “false claims” about the COVID-19 vaccine that could be available around the world…

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Facebook’s new censorship process has taken off, and the platform’s Oversight Board has released the first six cases it plans to review. The Facebook Oversight Board (The Board) does have a period for public comment for the posts under review,…

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While Twitter eagerly slaps warnings and labels on tweets from President Donald Trump like there’s no tomorrow, the platform is still unwilling to take action against Chinese misinformation.

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Twitter is all too eager to crack down on what it has deemed to be misinformation from President Donald Trump. Yet it appears all too willing to ignore obvious disinformation from a Chinese government account. 

Australian Prime Minister…

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Facebook used its power to modify user news feeds to suppress what it called “election misinformation.” This new policy used a “secret internal ranking” after the Nov. 3 election to alter users’ feeds on the platform. The company altered its…

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It appears that Facebook is willing to do whatever it can to get on former Vice President Joe Biden’s good side. Facebook is reportedly planning to promote the COVID-19 vaccine and the Paris climate agreement in order to “charm” Biden, the…

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Attorney Sidney Powell no longer operates in an official capacity for President Donald Trump’s legal team, which Twitter saw as the perfect opportunity to suspend her account for twelve hours. 

Powell was suspended from Twitter for twelve…

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Facebook has reached a whole new level in its censorship practices, and is not at all shy to tell reporters about it. In a recent call with reporters, Facebook’s Vice President of Integrity, Guy Rosen, revealed the specific numbers of how many…

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The Department of Justice just got an early Christmas present in its antitrust case against Google. The judge of the antitrust case is “eager” to move forward with the case, and has already set two preliminary hearings, according to The Wall…

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The Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in October, and it appears as though Facebook may be the next Big Tech company to face judgement day. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and several state attorneys general are…

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Conservatives have long pointed out Facebook’s leftist bias, but now, the American Principles Project (APP) is calling the social media platform to the mat for its censorious behavior. APP filed a complaint on Tuesday with the Federal Elections…

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Yesterday’s hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee sought to shed light on Big Tech censorship, but the left would prefer we pay no attention to what’s going on behind the curtain. The left, of course, wanted to brush off the Nov. 17 hearing,…

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) put Facebook on blast over its government-mandated  censorship in other countries in a Nov. 17 hearing. The hearing, entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,” featured testimony…

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Senate Republicans were not taking any excuses about censorship of conservatives from two Big Tech CEOs who appeared before the Senate once again. The Nov. 17 hearing, entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,”…

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Just as many conservatives are leaving Facebook and Twitter for Parler, some have also begun to leave YouTube for a different video-sharing platform. The platform Rumble has experienced massive growth in the weeks following the election,…

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GOP senators are ready to go on the attack against two Big Tech CEOs at a Senate hearing tomorrow about how online censorship influenced the election.

 

The hearing, entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the…

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Despite serious national security concerns over the video-sharing app TikTok, the United States government has reversed course on the app’s ban in the country. The Department of Commerce announced its compliance with an Oct. 30 injunction that…